A quantitative review of wind farm control with the objective of wind farm power maximization

AC Kheirabadi, R Nagamune - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
This article presents a review of control strategies for maximizing power production within
wind farms. Discussions focus on three notable concepts; power de-rating, yaw-based wake …

Wind farm control‐Part I: A review on control system concepts and structures

LE Andersson, O Anaya‐Lara, JO Tande… - IET renewable …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wind farm control design is a recently new area of research that has rapidly become a key
enabler for the development of large wind farm projects and their safe and efficient …

Review of wake management techniques for wind turbines

DR Houck - Wind Energy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The progression of wind turbine technology has led to wind turbines being incredibly
optimized machines often approaching their theoretical maximum production capabilities …

Wind farm control technologies: from classical control to reinforcement learning

H Dong, J Xie, X Zhao - Progress in Energy, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Wind power plays a vital role in the global effort towards net zero. A recent figure shows that
93GW new wind capacity was installed worldwide in 2020, leading to a 53% year-on-year …

[HTML][HTML] Design and analysis of a wake steering controller with wind direction variability

E Simley, P Fleming, J King - Wind Energy Science, 2020 - wes.copernicus.org
Wind farm control strategies are being developed to mitigate wake losses in wind farms,
increasing energy production. Wake steering is a type of wind farm control in which a wind …

Wind farm flow control: prospects and challenges

J Meyers, C Bottasso, K Dykes… - Wind Energy …, 2022 - wes.copernicus.org
Wind farm control has been a topic of research for more than two decades. It has been
identified as a core component of grand challenges in wind energy science to support …

Wind turbine wake control strategies: A review and concept proposal

R Nash, R Nouri, A Vasel-Be-Hagh - Energy Conversion and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
A wind farm's overall power production is significantly less than its nominal power, defined
as the sum of the wind turbines' rated outputs. The primary cause for this significant loss is …

Evaluating techniques for redirecting turbine wakes using SOWFA

PA Fleming, PMO Gebraad, S Lee, JW van Wingerden… - Renewable Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Wind plant control is an active field of research in which controllers are developed that seek
to maximize overall wind-plant performance in terms of power production, turbine structural …

A tutorial on control-oriented modeling and control of wind farms

S Boersma, BM Doekemeijer… - 2017 American …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wind turbines are often sited together in wind farms as it is economically advantageous.
However, the wake inevitably created by every turbine will lead to a time-varying interaction …

A simulation study demonstrating the importance of large-scale trailing vortices in wake steering

P Fleming, J Annoni, M Churchfield… - Wind Energy …, 2018 - wes.copernicus.org
In this paper, we investigate the role of flow structures generated in wind farm control
through yaw misalignment. A pair of counter-rotating vortices is shown to be important in …